Museum Masterpieces: The Louvre

Brown, Jonathan. The Golden Age of Painting in Spain. New Haven: Yale
University Press, 1991. No American scholar has done more for Spanish
painting in the last generation than Jonathan Brown.
Carrier, David. Museum Skepticism: A History of the Display of Art in
Public Galleries. North Carolina: Duke University Press, 2006. A persuasive
discussion of the art museum, with special attention to the Louvre.
Clark, Kenneth. Leonardo da Vinci. London: Penguin, 1981. Clark produced
one of the greatest accounts of an artist’s life ever written.
Conisbee, Philip. Georges de La Tour and His World. Washington, DC:
National Gallery of Art, 1996. Conisbee has written the a de� nitive
exhibition catalogue.
———. Painting in 18 th -Century France. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University
Press, 1981. A superb and accurate account of 18 th -century French painting.
Conisbee, Philip, and Colin B. Bailey. The Age of Watteau, Chardin, and
Fragonard: Masterpieces of French Genre Painting. New Haven: Yale
University Press, 2003. Read this book for an accurate understanding of
this period.
Cox-Rearick, Janet. Musée Du Louvre: La Collection de Françoise I. Paris:
Editions des musées nationaux, 1972. This book is the de� nitive account in
English of the earliest great French royal art collection.
Crow, Thomas E. Emulation: Making Artists for Revolutionary France. New
Haven: Yale University Press, 1995. This book is the clearest and most recent
study in English of revolutionary France and its artists.
———. Painters and Public Life in 18 th -Century Paris. New Haven: Yale
University Press, 1985. A � ercely intelligent study of the politics of painting
in Paris during the 18 th century.
Cuzin, Jean-Pierre. The Louvre : French Paintings. London: Scala, Paris and
Philip Wilson Publishers, 1982.
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